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SEAL.

No. 564,067. Patented July 14, 1896.

5g g i E s cc. PNOYOLITH A x UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZIMRI DUNCAN GRAY, OF SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR T WILLIAM S.WVITTEN, OF SAME PLACE.

SEAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,067, dated July 14,1896.

Application filed March 20, 1896.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZIMRI DUNCAN GRAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at South Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seals; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sealsin which the seal is made of one piece of metal of any suitable kind,which may be made by a single blow of a die, one end being widened sothat it may be bent upon itself to form a pocket for the reception ofthe other end of the strip, which is cut and bent so as to form anarrow-head, which, after being inserted in the pocket, made by bendingthe folds of the opposite end upon itself, the wings of thearrow-head-shaped end will engage over the edges of the pocket andeffectually hold the ends in a locked relation.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of means forpreventing the arrow-head-shaped end of the strip from being thrustthrough and out the opposite end of the pocket, which consists in theprovision of a flap which is turned in at one end of the pocket, thusforming a stop against which the point of the strip contacts if thelatter is forced through the length of the pocket.

To these ends, and to such others as the invention may pertain, the sameconsists, further, in the novel construction, combination,

and adaptation of the parts, as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I clearly illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, which,with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which drawings similar letters of referenceindicate like parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 isa plan view of the seal. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the seal withthe ends thereof locked together; Fig. 3, a central 1on- Serial No.584.078. (No model.)

gitudinal sectional View of the two ends in position for locking. Fig. 4is a similar view showing the ends locked together, and Fig. 5 is anenlarged detail in perspective of the arrow-head-shaped end of thestrip.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates the one piece of metal out of which the seal is made. One endof the blank is widened, as seen at B, and two flaps O and D are cut soas to be separated from the longitudinal piece A a short distance. Theopposite end of the blank is cut in V shape at E, and the portion F cutfrom said aperture is bent out, forming the flange shown in thedrawings. The end of the strip G is bent upon itself, forming a hookinclined at substantially the same angle as the flange F.

The widened portion B is bent and folded upon itself to form a pocket,(shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4,) the flap D being first bent upon itselfand folded in, as well as the end of the strip A, over the ends of whichfoldedin portions D and A the flanges of the opposite end of the tie aredesigned to engage when the end is forced into the pocket, thus rendering it impossible to withdraw the flanged end of the strip. The flap0 is also bent upon itself and folded inside the pocket to prevent anypossibility of the end of the strip being forced through the pocket,thus rendering it impossible to detach the ends of the strip withoutcutting the portion outside the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

A seal, comprising the one-piece blank having one end bent upon itselfto form a pocket, flaps D and O forming stops at each end of the saidpocket, the V-shaped flange F outwardly bent and forming, with the bentend G, an arrow-shaped head, each fang of which is adapted to engageover an inwardly-folded flap, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ZIMRI DUNCAN GRAY.

Witnesses F. WHITMARSH, SHIRLEY MCGILL.

